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In June, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry,
and was made a Sergeant in his company. He served during a brief campaign in Virginia,
and returned to his home upon the expiration of his term of enlistment, in the Fall of 1862.
He abandoned the idea of completing his college course, and in the Spring of 1863, was
elected as a Representative to the New Hampshire Legislature, from his native town of
Piermont. In the Spring of 1864, he went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained until
the Spring of 1870, when he removed to Penn Yan, Yates County, New York. He engaged
in the marble and granite business with his brother, A. P. Jenkins, and continues his business
and residence there up to the present time.
He has never married.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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